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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush Limbaugh Show podcast.

Yes, America's Anchorman is away, as I have said at the start of all these guest hosting stints for 15 years now.

America's Anchorman is away playing among the stars on that

great radio set in the sky for all eternity, because those radio waves never stop. So three

decades of rush are flying across the galaxies now and forever.

And all those early disc jockey shows are up there somewhere too.

At Ronald Reagan's memorial, the president's dear friend Margaret Thatcher said,

for the final years of his life, Ronnie's mind was clouded by illness.

That cloud has now lifted. He is himself again,

more himself than at any time on this earth. Rush's mind was entirely unclouded, right to the end, as you know, if you heard his last show just a fortnight ago, but for this miserable, ghastly final year,

his body was ravaged, and that cloud is now lifted, and he is free of that wasted shell,

and in Mrs. Thatcher's splendid words, more himself than at any time on this earth.

And I'm not a theological scholar, so I do not know how it works in the great hereafter

or whether they need bumper music of the spheres up there.

But I hope Rush's hearing is also restored, and a grand old disc jockey can once again listen to all his favorite hits like

that spectacular intro to Tom Jones doing It's Not Unusual that he especially liked. Rush was unusual,

unique and irreplaceable, nothing like him in the history of American broadcasting.

Today, just 48 hours after a grim ending, we all deep inside knew was coming.

We will remember Rush and we will hear Rush in that magnificent voice, the perfect radio voice.

Some of what we'll hear has been picked out by Rush's beloved Catherine, some by Mr. Snurdly and

Ali, and others who work on the show, and a couple by me, Mark Stein.

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